for weeks, sara has been riding me asking me when we are going to decorate our house, something we forever have done together as a family at the start of october.
so when tuesday of this week came around, sara seemed a little bit lost - maybe it was because of her last gymnastics meet, or the "change in seasons," or frankly and probably, because she lost her daddy this year, and all of the fun halloween events we used to do as a family is now changed forever.
on wednesday night while she was at practice, i tiresomely (and with some resentment) pulled down the heavy halloween holiday box. i yanked my inner spirit out to begin decorating our home. by the time she walked in she saw the lights and halloween collectibles, and perhaps maybe her spirit was ignited. she brushed off her excitement, and really didn't give me the time of day (i chalked it up to girl teenage hormones, but really that she was mad at me for it taking me so fucking long to pull that box down from high in the closet).
i knew i did her proud, because this morning she went back to the box and put her finishing touches on halloween in the cooper house.
so tomorrow i will pack all of that shit back into the orange tupperware box, up into the closet, until 2014. I'm thinking of preparing a little bit earlier for hannukah....especially because morgan mentioned this morning how much she loves hannukah and decorating our home for that holiday.
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